Bedlam

America. Summer. 1981. We're next

Looking through the headlines
Sheltered from what’s real
There’s a heat in the street
That you can’t feel
You think we got the great society
The cities will snap before they bury me

Bedlam in the streets of the USA
Oh, you’re stabbed in the back, have a nice day

Social disintegration is paving the way
The next generation, just like yesterday
And you can watch it on tonight’s news
The youth of the streets got nothing to lose

Bedlam in the streets of the USA
Oh, you’re stabbed in the back, have a nice day

They’ve got no hope so they got no fear
Smashed in heads, don’t shed a tear
The tension is mounting and the time is near

Bedlam in the streets of the USA
Oh, you’re stabbed in the back, have a nice day

Looking through the headlines
You’re sheltered from what’s real
There’s a heat in the street
That you can’t feel

Bedlam in the streets of the USA
Oh, you’re stabbed in the back, have a nice day

They’ve got no hope so they got no fear
Smashed in heads, don’t shed a tear
The tension is mounting, the time is near